Alright, since this was brought up in another thread, and since it seems to be asked all over the place, I figured I'd post some instructions that work. I'll keep it pretty simple. I just downloaded the ISO of BT2 last night and installed it in VMware following these instructions which I got help with from muts and/or ziplock a while back.

Keep in mind, VMware deafults to SCSI drives, so if you're using VMware (and you don't do a custom creation) you should use 'sda.' If you have an IDE HD, you use 'hda.' I'm going to post one copy of the instructions, and I'll include what you need to do for dual boot (but who does that anymore anyway?).

In the instructions, I'll be using sda and installing BT as the only OS in a VM. All commands will be italics and dual-boot notices will be bold.

Manu Zacharia - aka - The Morpheus wrote:Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. I am looking for some tutorial on Installation of Wireless Drivers - my RH 7 installation and BT 2 installation does not detect my wireless card for nc6400.

By nc6400, I'd guess you're talking about the HP Compaq nc6400? We use HP's at work, I have an nc6220. These HP's use an intel wireless adapter that's built-in. Is that the adapter you're trying to use? I know it won't work for BT2, I'm not sure about RH (though I'd guess probably not). As far as I know, there is no work around to use that adapter. You're best off buying a separate wireless PC card. A lot of people here have recommended using the Ubiquiti card from wlanparts.com.

No big deal; if it isn't working, you can't really break it. I just messed around with a ton of different stuff until I found something that worked. I do still have another question though. I'm running backtrack on an HP zv6000, and the only way I can get it to boot all the way is to disable acpi by adding the acpi=off line at boot. Is there a way to set that option as part of the default so I can disable the prompt and timeout and just boot straight into backtrack?

Lesser hassle, disabling that gives me no way to check my battery level, any suggestions on a different work around or something else I could use?

Hey there, i hope you don't mind replying here after 120 days from the last one but i really need to get some help with something. I have done by letter everything explained here and when rebooting the system (without the cd) i am having an error mssg

"GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...Error15_ "

Any idea of this.?

Thanks in advance ... and sorry for bothering you with such a problem.

slackram wrote:Hey there, i hope you don't mind replying here after 120 days from the last one but i really need to get some help with something. I have done by letter everything explained here and when rebooting the system (without the cd) i am having an error mssg

"GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...Error15_ "

Any idea of this.?

Thanks in advance ... and sorry for bothering you with such a problem.

Cheers

It has been a while since i asked help for this issue.I have been solved that out, and that's why i want to share it with all theese who might step on the same problem.

At first i would like to say that before i asked your help i tried to gather all avalliable infos reqarding that issue. Google offered me a lot of infos but none helped.

So, after many tests, (edits of Grub Loader configuration, installation of other open source boot managers, formating & re formating) i decided to install Win XP on this computer (a laptop which was running with various Linux distroes for the last 5 years).As we know Windows are very "friendly" with other OS we might have installed and they just want to "eat" every single availlable space point on our HDD's errasing everything else we have on board.

I just installed the xp's and then i tried once again to install the BT2 on that laptop.

It just worked out...

(I am delayed on replying once again because i was on a business task on an oil drill in Nigeria)